Clarkson: If Mercedes and Ferrari don't like it they can f@ck off

Whatever the motives, sinister or not, taking a swipe at F1 is easy these days as the sport reels from stewarding decisions that are shackling their craft, and Clarkson is clearly fed up with the situation.

He says in his little rant, " All of you fuck off, I want to see Villeneuve and Arnoux wheel-to-wheel, last lap of the French Grand Prix. And if Ferrari don't like that then they can fuck off, well in fact Mercedes can fuck off... in fact, they can all fuck off.

"And Ferrari saying, 'Oh well we have marketing strategies' and 'Mercedes saying, oh but we...' fuck off the lot of you. Let's turn it into a proper sport again and not some health and safety exercise. I would rather watch a Formula E race than Formula One. Sorry, I was ranting away a bit there, but they can all fuck off!"

The "they" referred to are clearly the FIA appointed race stewards who have come to prominence in recent races, the Canadian Grand Prix, in particular, they made a race altering decision which denied fans hard wheel-to-wheel racing.

Furthermore, fans, teams and drivers have questioned the inconsistency of penalties dished out by in recent races, with Clarkson's parody a sad reflection on the state-of-affairs in F1 and the negative perceptions that are festering as the power brokers of the sport plot the way forward.

https://www.grandprix247.com/2019/07/04/montoya-im-surprised-ive-not-been-asked-to-be-a-steward-yet/